UPDATE AT END: President Trump set Twitter ablaze Saturday night with the cryptic tweet, “Something very big has just happened!”
Current President Trump Twitter header photo from Orlando rally, June 18, 2019.
Within fifteen minutes of Trump’s 9:23 p.m. EDT tweet it garnered well over a combined 50,000 replies, retweets and likes with thousands more interactions very minute.
Something very big has just happened!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 27, 2019
Fox News Channel host Judge Jeanine Pirro told viewers that Fox has reached out to numerous White House contacts to ascertain what Trump’s tweet is about with no answer so far.
Update: There is speculation the tweet is in reference to this raid in northern Syria near the town of Barisha by unknown forces caught on video (mainly audio as it was night):
عدة طائرات مروحية تحلق في سماء منطقة باريشا بريف إدلب الشمالي على الحدود التركية السورية وتقوم باستهداف المنطقة بالرشاشات الثقيلة، وسط إطلاق نار من مضادات أرضية للتصدي لتلك المروحيات، دون ورود معلومات عن تبعية هذه المروحيات أو طبيعة العملية التي تنفذها في المنطقة. pic.twitter.com/KJlPKkZN8n
— Mohamad Rasheed محمد رشيد (@mohmad_rasheed) October 26, 2019
The Washington Post’s Josh Rogin commented, “This seems to relate to the raid in northern Idlib, Syria where U.S. led coalition forces were pursuing a high value terrorist target. No confirmation yet, some chatter it could be Baghdadi.”
This seems to relate to the raid in northern Idlib, Syria where U.S. led coalition forces were pursuing a high value terrorist target. No confirmation yet, some chatter it could be Baghdadi. https://t.co/I8aCl3oG5W
— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) October 27, 2019
More video:
فيديو لغارات من طائرات حربية مجهولة أدت لإشتعال النيران بين باريشا و حتان بريف إدلب الشمالي بالقرب من الحدود التركية السورية. pic.twitter.com/w83K8DJMKE
— Mohamad Rasheed محمد رشيد (@mohmad_rasheed) October 27, 2019
Translation via Google: “Video of raids by unknown warplanes set fire to Barisha and Hattan in the northern countryside of Idlib near the Turkish-Syrian border.”
UPDATE 10:40 p.m. EDT: Just reported statement from the White House: “The President of the United States will be making a major statement tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock from the White House”
White House: “The President of the United States will be making a major statement tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock from the White House”
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) October 27, 2019
